dinner jacket

American  

noun

1. tuxedo.

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dinner jacket British  

noun

1. Abbreviations: DJ.   dj.  US and Canadian name: tuxedo.  a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels

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Etymology

Origin of dinner jacket

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Henry Poole, credited with creating the dinner jacket, or tuxedo, has held a British royal warrant since the 1860s when it supplied Queen Victoria.

From Reuters • May 2, 2023

In a small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner jacket, ready for the red carpet at the Bafta Awards.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2023

Just minutes into the show, host Gary Collins pulled an envelope from his burgundy dinner jacket: the names of the 10 finalists.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

When he walked onstage to accept his Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain,” he wore bluejeans and cowboy boots below his dinner jacket.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Pat, radiant in a ballerina-length accordion-pleated gown, stood before the makeshift altar adorned with evergreens and gladioli and said “I do” to Walter, dashing in a white dinner jacket.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly